Portuguese Architecture Developments – Buildings

Portuguese Architecture Developments

Key Property Designs + Buildings in Portugal, Europe

Architecture Developments in Portugal

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Portuguese Architecture Developments.

We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Portugal. The focus is on contemporary Portuguese buildings but information on traditional buildings in Portugal is also welcome.

Portuguese Building Developments – Latest Design Additions

DJ House, CarcavelosDesign: [i]da Arquitectosphotograph : Joao MorgadoDJ House Carcavelos – 6 Jul 2012
A central patio divides the house into two parts and organizes the interior spaces: on the west side, an open horizontal space to the garden receives the dining room and the kitchen; on the east side, a vertical space, located at a lower level in relation to the public route to ensure domestic privacy, receives the living room.

Francisco de Arruda School, LisbonDesign: José NevesLaura Castro Caldas & Paulo Cintra; João DiasFrancisco de Arruda School
This building is a project within the “School Modernization Program” sponsored by the Parque Escolar, for a school originally designed by architect José António Pedroso in 1956. The three bodies that constitute the school are situated on the hillside in the continuity of the Faculty of Agronomy fields, overlooking the district of Alcântara. The original building, spread across three platforms pragmatically modelled on the hill, is organized around a central patio and has three bodies each with its own functions – teaching, administration, and covered playground; gym and cafeteria; workshops – linked through covered outdoor galleries. These bodies, with very different shapes, were taken by us as if they had been built over time, making a little city. Our project quietly continues this process.